arienettelyn's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i dined with local-not-even-quasi-celebrities! so my area has a minor league baseball team. they're called the hudson valley renegades. and they're minor league in the worst way, we're talkin single A, here. and if you know anything about baseball, you know that there's 3 levels of minor league baseball, A, AA, and AAA. AAA is the best. A is the worst. but i mean, the players are all still really good, since it's actual minor league baseball. ANYWAY, the team's been here for about 10 years, and we used to go to games alot since its only 10 minutes from our house, but i probably haven't been in 6 years. maybe more. my dad's friend barbara lets players on the team live with her, since they make hardly any money. she has up to like 3 guys at a time. but she's my dad's age (56) and her son lives in florida, and she doesn't have anyone else, so i guess it makes sense. anyway, in return for that, she gets tickets and crap and she's all important. so she asked my dad and me and randy to come with her to the game tonight. they finished a game that had been suspended earlier in the week, and lost it. then they started a new game, and won it, 5-0. yay! haha....they were playing the staten island yankees. one guy hit 2 home runs and a double. wow. it rained a little, but the game was pretty fun. they really try to keep you entertained there! after the game, we went to the rolling rock cafe. barbara came with us, and another family who hosted players did too. this family included my dad's crazy ass friend jeff, who is funny as hell, and his wife and daughter sarah, who apparently i was supposed to know, but don't really remember at all. i bought sarah cigarettes because she didn't have her id, and she hugged me. that was...odd. uncomfortable. whatever. i accepted it, she seemed...nice? anyways, matt, the right fielder and the one player that is staying with barbara right now came to dinner with us (she had 3 before, but 2 got promoted to AA or something), and he brought his friend nate, who is also on the team but not playing right now because he got a concussion running into the wall trying to catch a ball and now his depth perception is all screwy. 2 other players came too, they were puerto rican and named chino (!!!) and ray. at least one of them is staying with jeff's family, maybe both. needless to say, it was a pretty intersting time. it would be boring to recount the whole thing, but some highlights include my dad trying to impress the guys with his stupid baseball knowledge, jeff starting a little pinching "pass it on" thing, sarah very obviously implying that the 2 puerto rican guys were gay lovers (i'm guessing they didn't understand the innuendos, they didn't speak english all that well), one of the puerto rican guys singing along to incubus when they played it, and jeff saying that matt looked like demi moore in that movie where she shaved her head and joined the army. i had fun, it was nice, i thought it would be totally weird but it wasn't, except for that fact that i felt like matt was staring at my face the entire time...i'm probably paranoid, but ahh it was starting to make me nervous. they were all really nice guys though, and it was a good time. so...now i'm home, and i have finished all my work! woohoo! last night i watched the linkin park dvd for the first time in...probably a year. just as funny as ever! this time we made kenny watch with us. i believe he was equally entertained. of course, watching it made me want to listen to linkin park, which reminded me of when i was in high school, and aww! but yeah, i'm ok now. i get to see incubus on wednesday, the 5th time! i actually got some sleep last nite! i opted to go bandaid-less, and then i slept till 1:30 today. my dad gave me crap for it, but then i tried to explain to him i havent really slept well since wednesday night...my mom was like, oh no, its fine, you need your rest! it's strange when my mom is nice to me. very strange. everybody wake up, it's time to get down! 12:30 a.m. - 2003-07-28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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